#formed

You never choose the way that you're raised, it's just the way that you were raised, but you do get to a certain age where you're in a position to question the expectations of you and the way that you've been formed by your surroundings. ↗

— Mia Wasikowska

#been #certain #certain age #choose #expectations

How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past. ↗

— David Wilkerson

#forget #god #granted #great #how

So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#alabama #biologically #evolution #freshman #freshman year

I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them. ↗

— Paul Getty

#company #deep #enjoyed #formed #friendships

Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me. ↗

— Alberto Giacometti

#constructed #deeply #discover #displaced #facts

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#advanced #been #bewilderment #changed #exhilaration

I feel very confident that that information should be sufficient for the members of the Senate to make an informed decision about John Roberts' qualifications. ↗

— Alberto Gonzales

#confident #decision #feel #i #i feel

I guess Surrealism has a draw for me because it's an unknown world. It's a world of subconscious. Some things you can't really get your hands on very easily. Things that are kind of nebulous and they feel like they're not completely formed. You have to feel your way through that. ↗

— Gotye

#completely #draw #easily #feel #formed

Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

#abuse #any #borrower #fraud #informed

On embarking to return we could perceive no sign of One Tree Island; and as we swept down towards the sea the leafy top of a tree seen in the clear water under the boat was the only evidence of its existence; though a few hours ago it had formed so prominent an object. ↗

— George Grey

#boat #clear #could #down #embarking